A RAPID response team (RRT) has been ordered to go to Iraq’s city of Erbil in Kurdistan region to assist the Philippine Embassy in Baghdad in monitoring and preparing for any contingency that may arise as a result of escalating fighting in Mosul, which has been under the control of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

Erbil is only a few kilometers away from Mosul.

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